All iPads You think more RAM next generation is promised?

[Count Blah]

About being the first to 6GB of ram?

Yes, yes, 1000 times yes.

 

[justind.clark]

I'm just guessing of course, but I think it's likely next year's Ipads will have more Ram. There are trade offs, as you say, but as time goes by the technology becomes better and the tradeoffs become less necessary. When the original Ipad mini came out, Anand said he didn't expect a retina version to come out within the next year. In his review of the retina mini, he said he'd been wrong because the technology changed faster than he'd anticipated.

And this is probably true, I just thought it was an interesting question either way. Most of the threads I've seen concerning the 1GB issue have three major kinds of respondents, people who are happy with the new iPads, people who are unhappy with the spec, and some people who are unsure if they should wait until next year. Maybe something for that last group to think about.

 

[RickTaylor]

And this is probably true, I just thought it was an interesting question either way. Most of the threads I've seen concerning the 1GB issue have three major kinds of respondents, people who are happy with the new iPads, people who are unhappy with the spec, and some people who are unsure if they should wait until next year. Maybe something for that last group to think about.

I'm in the group that's thrilled with the current retina mini. I think it's a great time to upgrade, especially if one is interested in that particular device. There will be future upgrades of course, it will have more RAM, run faster, but I think it will be a while before we see an upgrade comparable to upgrading from an A5 to an A7 cpu and doubling the resolution.

 

[donnaw]

Of course I want the products to work as well as possible, but not always sticking another GB of RAM in is the solution - it may help, but I think the core of it here is down to iOS 7.

It doesn't seem at all well optimised for iPad, and I think once this is sorted out in either 7.1 or iOS 8 we may see things running much better.

I also don't think that it would garner much negative publicity, since Apple doesn't actually publish RAM specs and many users are not aware of where the bottleneck takes place. (E.g. 'Antennagate' was much more widely reported than, say, the colour gamut of the rMini display, as your average punter knows what a dropped call is, but doesn't know what sRGB means).

Don't think I'm not wanting 2GB RAM - sure, it'd be nice to have. But I don't think the perceived shortcomings of the iPad is solely down to the RAM.

Once it's sorted? iOS 8 won't be out for a year. Unless it's 'sorted' quickly then the question is moot for the year. Frankly, Apple should have had it 'sorted' for iPads by 7.01. I like my new iPad Air but putting out a new OS, devices with new architecture and not having the OS optimized at the beginning is pretty much unforgivable for me. Unless the low RAM instances and crashing is fixed within the next couple of months this will be my last iOS device. I'm not willing to pay close to $1000 and then wait a year for Apple to get it together.

In my opinion, Apple should have backed off the gimmicks (parallax etc,) and concentrated on the basic OS. I find it hard to believe that they didn't know how badly it would run on some devices. If they didn't know, well now they do and hopefully are on task.